Comparing social contact and group identification as predictors of mental health [PDF]
Current research on social integration and mental health operationalizes social integration as frequency of interactions and participation in social activities (i.e., social contact).
Beck +27 more
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Lone star or team player?:The interrelationship of different identification foci and the role of self-presentation concerns [PDF]
Work identity is important in the attraction and retention of staff, yet how the facets of such identity relate remains convoluted and unclear despite this being of interest to both scholars and practitioners.
Holtgrave, Max +3 more
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Social capital, identification and support: Scope for integration
Social relationships are important predictors of a range of individual outcomes, such as wellbeing and health. These social relationships are conceptualised in different ways, such as (inter-personal) forms of social support, identification with groups, or social capital. What is the overlap among these concepts and in what ways do they differ?
Justin Richardson +2 more
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That is how we do it around here: Levels of identification, masculine honor, and social activism against organized crime in the south of Italy [PDF]
Masculine honor is an important cultural code in the south of Italy. Italian criminal organizations (COs) manipulate and exploit this code to maintain legitimacy among local populations and exert social control in the territory where they operate.
Abrams, Dominic +3 more
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Latent social distancing: Identification, causes and consequences
It is not directly observable how effectively a society practices social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper proposes a novel and robust methodology to identify latent social distancing at the country level. We extend the Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered-Deceased (SEIRD) model with a time-varying, country-specific distancing ...
M. Aykut Attar, Ayça Tekin-Koru
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Mapping the social space of transnational migrants on the basis of their (supra)national belongings: the case of French citizens in Berlin [PDF]
In traditional migration theory, social self-identification is usually linked with the process and quality of integration and with the nationality of the countries of ‘origin’ and of residence.
Duchêne-Lacroix, Cédric +1 more
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Deprivation, ethnicity and the prevalence of intellectual and developmental disabilities [PDF]
Background Social gradients and ethnic disparities have been reported in some forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities. However, information on the association between area deprivation, ethnicity and other forms of intellectual and ...
Emerson, Eric
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Social signature identification of dynamical social networks [PDF]
Abstract Understanding the social relation of dynamical online social networks (OSNs) is significant for identifying the strong and weak ties. In this paper, we empirically investigate the evolution characteristics of Facebook and Wiki users’ social signature, capturing the distribution of frequency of interactions between different alters over time ...
Li, Ren-De +3 more
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Fighting for human rights: Collective action by actual and potential activists [PDF]
Studying collective action with activists is increasingly important due to the large number of social movements fighting for human rights. Many studies are only partly conducted with actual activists and studying both actual and potential activists is ...
Pistoni Carlo +2 more
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The Longitudinal Effects of STEM Identity and Gender on Flourishing and Achievement in College Physics [PDF]
Background. Drawing on social identity theory and positive psychology, this study investigated women’s responses to the social environment of physics classrooms.
Abramzon, Nina +5 more
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